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Staying Cyber Aware in a Crisis: Smart Tips for Nonprofit Boards

Board Effect

In considering a total risk management plan, boards, senior executives, and risk management teams need to be aware that cybercriminals are taking advantage of the current global crisis for their own benefit by using terms related to the crisis to commit cybercrimes. Underground forms are flooded with the same types of conversations.

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Separated at Birth: Techstars and Startup Weekend

David Cohen

Today we announced that Techstars has acquired UP Global, which includes Startup Weekend and many other fantastic events and programs. Startup Weekend is my absolute favorite global event for entrepreneurship. A few years later, Andrew had scaled Startup Weekend into a global phenomenon. Events were happening all over the world.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. Mongolia, which I think had a law about requiring them. Countries like Indonesia and Israel and the Czech Republic and Slovenia and Mongolia and Singapore require masks.